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The relationship between context, structure, and processes with outcomes of 6 regional diabetes networks in Europe

2018

BackgroundWhile health service provisioning for the chronic condition Type 2 Diabetes (T2D) often involves a network of organisations and professionals, most evidence on the relationships between the structures and processes of service provisioning and the outcomes considers single organisations or solo practitioners. Extending Donabedian's Structure-Process-Outcome (SPO) model, we investigate how differences in quality of life, effective coverage of diabetes, and service satisfaction are associated with differences in the structures, processes, and context of T2D services in six regions in Finland, Germany, Greece, Netherlands, Spain, and UK.MethodsData collection consisted of: a) systemat…

Nāves eifēmizācija japāņu valodā

2019

Eifēmismi ir izteikumi, kurus izmanto netīkamu, nepiedienīgu vārdu aizvietošanai. Viens no semantiskajiem laukiem, kas tiek īpaši pakļauts eifēmizācijai, ir nāve un mirstība, kas izraisa bailes un nepatiku cilvēkos no visdažādākajām vidēm. Bieži cilvēku lietotie eifēmismi ir skaidrojami ar konceptuālo metaforu - garīgo tēlu, kas ietekmē mūsu izzināšanas spējas. Bakalaura darba “Nāves eifēmizācija japāņu valodā” mērķis ir identificēt visaptverošas konceptuālās metaforas, kuras atspoguļo eifēmismu lietošanu saistībā ar nāvi un mirstību japāņu valodā. Darbs sastāv no četrām daļām. Pirmajā daļā tiek definēts termins ‘eifēmisms’ un tiek sniegti vairāki termina skaidrojumi, kā arī tiek izklāstīti…

Role of human metabolizing enzymes in food perception

2022

Flavor is the main factor determining food acceptability. Flavor corresponds to the combination of the signals from the gustatory system, the olfactory system and the trigeminal system. Interactions between proteins and flavor molecules in oral/nasal cavities are proposed to modulate flavor perception through a series of events knowns as perireceptor events. Among these proteins involved in this modulation are found enzymes mainly known for their role in the detoxification process. These enzymes are able to recognize a large panel of molecules. We proposed to explore the role of these enzymes in food perception. We demonstrated that enzymatic activities present in the oral epithelium and sa…

Taste perception: from molecule to eating behaviour

2020

The sense of taste has a role in human nutrition, it help to orient our food choices and avoid the ingestion of toxi compounds. Advances in molecular biology, cell biology an, biochemistry were used to identify and characterize the main taste receptors. The identification of these receptors allow a better understanding of the physiological processes tha govern taste perception. The presence of genetic polymorphisr in these receptors explains interindividual differences in tast perception.

Teachers’ situational physiological stress and affect

2023

Since teaching is a demanding and stressful profession, the study of teachers’ physiological stress in the classroom setting is an emerging field. In cross-sectional studies self-reported stress and affect are related, but less is known about the intraindividual relations between situational physiological stress and corresponding positive and negative affect. The aim of our study was to investigate the associations between situational physiological stress (six salivary cortisol samples per day) and self-reported situational affect (Positive and Negative Affect Schedule four times a day) among 61 Finnish primary school teachers over two workdays. We present a novel multilevel structural equa…

Active degassing of crustal CO2 in areas of tectonic collision: A case study from the Pollino and Calabria sectors (Southern Italy)

2022

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is released from the Earth’s interior into the atmosphere through both volcanic and non-volcanic sources in a variety of tectonic settings. A quantitative understanding of CO2 outgassing fluxes in different geological settings is thus critical for decoding the link between the global carbon budget and different natural processes (e.g., volcanic eruption and earthquake nucleation) and the effects on the climate evolution over geological time. It has recently been proposed that CO2 degassing from non-volcanic areas is a major component of the natural CO2 emission budget, but available data are still sparse and incomplete. Here, we report the results of a geochemical surve…

Virtuālās realitātes tehnoloģijas kā apziņas metafora

2020

Maģistra darbā “Virtuālās realitātes tehnoloģijas kā apziņas metafora” tiek aplūkots šīs metaforas pielietojums mūsdienu apziņas filozofijas kontekstā. Darba mērķis ir pierādīt, ka, neskatoties uz virtuālās realitātes metaforas noderīgumu konkrētos kontekstos, tai ir ievērojami ierobežojumi un problēmas, kas traucē raksturot fenomenālo apziņu. Darba pirmajā daļā tiek aplūkotas senākas tehnoloģiju metaforas (prāts kā automāts, tvaika dzinējs un dators). Otrajā daļā tiek apskatīts virtuālās realitātes metaforas pielietojums mūsdienu apziņas filozofijas tekstos, lai noskaidrotu metaforas pielietošanas pamatojumu. Trešajā daļā tiek veikta šīs metaforas analīze, lai noskaidrotu tās ierobežojumus…

Metallintyöstötekniikat, puuntyöstökoneet ja perustyövälineet tutuiksi

2015

Gill area explains deviations from body size–metabolic rate relationship in teleost fishes

2022

Whether gill area constrains fish metabolism through oxygen limitation is a debated topic. Here, the authors provide insights into this question by analysing mass-specific metabolic rates across 44 teleost fishes extracted from FishBase. They explore whether species deviations from metabolic rates predicted by body mass can be explained by species gill area. They show that the gill area explains c. 26%–28% of species-level deviations from mass-specific metabolic rates. Their findings suggest that gill area might indeed be one of the factors limiting metabolic rate in fishes.

Prenatal thyroid hormones accelerate postnatal growth and telomere shortening in wild great tits

2021

AbstractEarly-life environment is known to affect later-life health and disease, which could be mediated by the early-life programming of telomere length, a key hallmark of ageing. According to thefetal programming of telomere biology hypothesis, variation in prenatal exposure to hormones is likely to influence telomere length. Yet the contribution of key metabolic hormones,i.e. thyroid hormones (THs), has been largely ignored. We recently showed that in contrast to predictions, exposure to elevated prenatal THs increased postnatal telomere length in wild collared flycatchers, but the generality of such effect, its underlying proximate mechanisms and consequences on survival have not been i…